10 sharkiest waves In Aus

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by JSB » Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:10 pm

Has anyone here surfed Cactus, how are the crowds/sharks/waves ?

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by otway1949 » Fri Dec 27, 2013 8:28 am

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by JSB » Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:05 pm

Where was that taken Otway?

Wiztig's and Fisheries Bay look really good, I might have to go on a trip.

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by xe » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:21 am

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by Beanpole » Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:51 am

Well Box Head is always good for the jitters.
Had a disorganized surf chase one time that left Bondi via Zetland to Dee Why then on to the Central Coast. Paddled out at 4:30 and it was dark by the time wed caught one wave. Had to paddle in using house lights as reference points. Spooky going out in the rip sometimes. Spooky coming in too unless its midday.
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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by otway1949 » Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:03 pm

JSB wrote:Where was that taken Otway?

Wiztig's and Fisheries Bay look really good, I might have to go on a trip.
It is local waters for the Otway, but not to worry it's a whale of a tail, southern right here at the bar.
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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by zumabeach » Tue Dec 31, 2013 3:25 pm

In another life - just before leg ropes came in! - I can vividly remember surfing Back Beach at Streaky Bay with three mates and no one else around for miles, as it was back then. It was a hot summer afternoon on a dumpy sort of swell and we all lost our boards and had to swim in. We're all standing on the beach wondering if it's worth paddling back out and a set wave reared up out the back. Outlined in it was the biggest shark you could imagine - definitely a white pointer, a massive thing that could have starred in Jaws. We all but shat ourselves and needless to say didn't go back out. In those days it was all dirt roads and heat and the only sign of "civilisation" at Cactus was a pile of empty baked bean cans and the ashes of old campfires. Being young, stupid and often drunk back then, I have fuzzy memories of us sitting on a cliff somewhere west of Port Lincoln and taking pot shots with a 22 at numerous sharks in the water below. Needless to say we didn't hit any of them. Idiots.

Sharks seemed to be part of South Australian surfing back then. Another time my brother and I were surfing the beach breaks between Goolwa and good old dribbleton Middleton on a pretty average day with no one else around. We're sitting out there and I look over at him and see a fin coming through the water straight up behind him. I yelled out and he pulled his legs up on his board. The fin - it wasn't huge but it was a shark for sure - did an immediate 180 degree turn and headed back out to sea before disappearing. Don't know who was more shocked - my brother or the shark.

Still, I also had my best "fishy" encounter just along at the coast at Middleton where I was riding along on one of its dribbly waves that seemed to go for miles when I look down and there's this fishy flash next to my board and then another one. Again, I all but shat myself but It was a pod of dolphins and they hung around for half an hour or so catching waves with us and giving me at least one of my best times in 50 plus years of getting beaten up by the ocean.

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by daryl » Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:21 pm

Good one! I was in my teens minding a station on the coast around there and had high point of my life bodybashing back and forth with a dolphin porpoise!
zumabeach wrote:In another life - just before leg ropes came in! - I can vividly remember surfing Back Beach at Streaky Bay with three mates and no one else around for miles, as it was back then. It was a hot summer afternoon on a dumpy sort of swell and we all lost our boards and had to swim in. We're all standing on the beach wondering if it's worth paddling back out and a set wave reared up out the back. Outlined in it was the biggest shark you could imagine - definitely a white pointer, a massive thing that could have starred in Jaws. We all but shat ourselves and needless to say didn't go back out. In those days it was all dirt roads and heat and the only sign of "civilisation" at Cactus was a pile of empty baked bean cans and the ashes of old campfires. Being young, stupid and often drunk back then, I have fuzzy memories of us sitting on a cliff somewhere west of Port Lincoln and taking pot shots with a 22 at numerous sharks in the water below. Needless to say we didn't hit any of them. Idiots.

Sharks seemed to be part of South Australian surfing back then. Another time my brother and I were surfing the beach breaks between Goolwa and good old dribbleton Middleton on a pretty average day with no one else around. We're sitting out there and I look over at him and see a fin coming through the water straight up behind him. I yelled out and he pulled his legs up on his board. The fin - it wasn't huge but it was a shark for sure - did an immediate 180 degree turn and headed back out to sea before disappearing. Don't know who was more shocked - my brother or the shark.

Still, I also had my best "fishy" encounter just along at the coast at Middleton where I was riding along on one of its dribbly waves that seemed to go for miles when I look down and there's this fishy flash next to my board and then another one. Again, I all but shat myself but It was a pod of dolphins and they hung around for half an hour or so catching waves with us and giving me at least one of my best times in 50 plus years of getting beaten up by the ocean.

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by JSB » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:42 pm

Will be surfing Wiztig's, cactus or fisheries tomorrow, hope I won't have any stories like these for u guys. :shock:

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by JSB » Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:31 pm

This looked sharky.
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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by Drailed » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:40 pm

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by diggerdickson » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:57 pm

Surfed caves recently and wouldnt like to do a solo session there. Did a solo session on the left into the bay, hell sharky. Dont know why i surfed it i just had too. Will never surf that left agian
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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by marauding mullet » Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:44 pm

diggerdickson wrote:Surfed caves recently and wouldnt like to do a solo session there. Did a solo session on the left into the bay, hell sharky. Dont know why i surfed it i just had too. Will never surf that left agian
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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by cedric » Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:45 pm

About 10ks West of caves,early morn overcast two of us out, shitscared and i lasted 10 mins my mate surfed solo for an 1 hr not for me far to eerie.

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Re: 10 sharkiest waves In Aus

Post by diggerdickson » Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:29 pm

Yer thats it. No one on it so went for a paddle. The rip took you to the middle of the bay :(. Great wave though, powerful.
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